Shane E Ehrhardt, Yohan Wards, Reuben Rideaux, Małgorzata Marjańska, Jin Jin, Martijn A Cloos, Dinesh K Deelchand, Helge J Zöllner, Muhammad G Saleh, Steve C N Hui, Tonima Ali, Thomas B Shaw, Markus Barth, Jason B Mattingley, Hannah L Filmer, Paul E Dux
Methods of cognitive enhancement for humans are most impactful when they generalise across tasks. However, the extent to which such "transfer" is possible via interventions is widely debated. In addition, the contribution of excitatory and inhibitory processes to such transfer is unknown. Here, in a large-scale neuroimaging individual differences study with humans (both sexes), we paired multitasking training and non-invasive brain stimulation (transcranial direct current stimulation; tDCS) over multiple days and assessed performance across a range of paradigms...
March 26, 2024: Journal of Neuroscience